To round a value you would use round floor ceil functions.
Sas floor decimal.
If we run this code sas log will show the following results.
As bruno sas has said format does not change the underlying value only how it is displayed.
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Let s see an example of each.
The result is the integer part of the calculated value in the same data type as numeric expression.
If the argument is within 1e 12 of an integer the floor function fuzzes the result to be equal to that integer.
You can do this based on an array if you like.
Sas has several ways to round a number to an integer.
For ex 13 265 should become 13 12 514 should become 12.
Hi i want to remove the values after decimal places.
Round down in sas or floor in sas uses floor function which rounds down the column in sas.
W is the maximum number of data columns including digits after decimal the decimal point itself allowed to be stored for the variable.
As you can see these results are correct and identical to the results of numeric truncation.
D is the number of digits to the right of the decimal.
Below is a list of formats used for reading the data into sas.
Therefore with the floorz function you might get unexpected results.
The following example shows positive numeric negative numeric and values with the floor function.